Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB22/07/014

Address :
Trooperslane Station, Trooperslane Road, Carrickfergus, Co Antrim BT38 **See General Comments**

Townland:

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Survey 2:
D1 Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Demolished

Former Use
Railway Station Structures

Conservation Area:

Industrial Archaeology:

Vernacular:

Thatched:

Monument:

Derelict:

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OS Map No:
98-15SE

IG Ref:
J3867 8682

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Owner Category

Exterior Description And Setting

The station lies on the Belfast-Carrickfergus line and was opened by the Belfast & Ballymena Railway Company in 1848. In 1895, the Belfast & Northern County Railway (which had taken over the B&BR) erected a half-timbered station building on the ‘up’ platform (to Belfast) and timber waiting shed on the ‘down’ platform (to Carrickfergus), both designed by their chief engineer, Berkley Dean Wise in collaboration with the architect John Hanna. When the station was de-staffed in the late 1990s, these buildings were vandalised and subsequently demolished, leaving only the two brick platforms. Translink erected two metal and glass waiting shelters and resurfaced the platforms as part of the station’s refurbishment in 2008. No traces of the former buildings survive and the surviving platforms are only of local industrial heritage significance.

Architects

Historical Information

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

General Comments

This is a partial record only for a building that was recorded in the first survey but not listed and then was demolished before the Second Survey.

Date of Survey

15 December 2008